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Yawn, more of this silly apple snobbery. Yes, honey crisp is a good apple, but red delicious is also fine. The difference in taste between table/dessert apples

Yawn, more of this silly apple snobbery. Yes, honey crisp is a good apple, but red delicious is also fine. The difference in taste between table/dessert apples is mostly personal preference. Get over yourselves, you are not better than the many people who prefer red delicious, and your palette is not more refined. I've met apple farmers who rather like red delicious, surely it's not because the poor wretches just don't have access to the other kinds, or know nothing about apples.

Spivak 4y ago
> but red delicious is also fine I was prepared to agree with you on pretty much any apple except red delicious. They are absolutely disgusting and leave no room for preference or taste. They're flavorless and mealy. I wouldn't give one to my worst enemy.
- 867-5309 4y ago
  >more of this silly apple snobbery
  - Spivak 4y ago
    Fine, sure. How bad does something have to taste for it to stop being snobbery? Is there any time you can criticize any food? Taste is subjective at the margins but Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason. Whatever measure you pick for "aspects of foods that humans like" they will fail. You're allowed to be that one person that them, I like things that nobody else likes too but I'm not stupid enough to serve them to others.
    - 867-5309 4y ago
      >Is there any time you can criticize any food? perhaps not during a global food crisis, from a first-world (obese) nation, which is seeing some fruits and vegetables tripling in price
      - Spivak 4y ago
        This is the “you should finish your plate, there are children starving in __” argument just stated differently. Red delicious apples suck and if we dropped into a depression where that was my only option that isn’t going to suddenly make them taste good and I’ll complain the whole time eating them.
    - kspacewalk2 4y ago
      >Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason Famously reviled by whom? Could this be selection bias at play? I personally have never met a real-world person who disliked them as singularly as Internet hipsters do. Opinions range from "my fav" to "not my fav". >You're allowed to be that one person that them Ah, I've got my work cut out for me*, visiting every single grocery store and buying up their most abundant supply of apples. Surely they cannot be ordering them due to popularity. * (Red delicious is not even my favourite, just a regular apple).
  - widerporst 4y ago
    Eh, different people like different tastes, sure. I wouldn't judge someone for liking the taste of a Red Delicious. But there are some practically universally disdained qualities, like mealiness. And Red Delicious is definitely one of the worst offenders in that regards, making it an (almost) objectively bad cultivar.

Spivak 4y ago

> but red delicious is also fine I was prepared to agree with you on pretty much any apple except red delicious. They are absolutely disgusting and leave no room for preference or taste. They're flavorless and mealy. I wouldn't give one to my worst enemy.

867-5309 4y ago
>more of this silly apple snobbery
- Spivak 4y ago
  Fine, sure. How bad does something have to taste for it to stop being snobbery? Is there any time you can criticize any food? Taste is subjective at the margins but Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason. Whatever measure you pick for "aspects of foods that humans like" they will fail. You're allowed to be that one person that them, I like things that nobody else likes too but I'm not stupid enough to serve them to others.
  - 867-5309 4y ago
    >Is there any time you can criticize any food? perhaps not during a global food crisis, from a first-world (obese) nation, which is seeing some fruits and vegetables tripling in price
    - Spivak 4y ago
      This is the “you should finish your plate, there are children starving in __” argument just stated differently. Red delicious apples suck and if we dropped into a depression where that was my only option that isn’t going to suddenly make them taste good and I’ll complain the whole time eating them.
  - kspacewalk2 4y ago
    >Red Delicious are famously reviled, and for good reason Famously reviled by whom? Could this be selection bias at play? I personally have never met a real-world person who disliked them as singularly as Internet hipsters do. Opinions range from "my fav" to "not my fav". >You're allowed to be that one person that them Ah, I've got my work cut out for me*, visiting every single grocery store and buying up their most abundant supply of apples. Surely they cannot be ordering them due to popularity. * (Red delicious is not even my favourite, just a regular apple).
- widerporst 4y ago
  Eh, different people like different tastes, sure. I wouldn't judge someone for liking the taste of a Red Delicious. But there are some practically universally disdained qualities, like mealiness. And Red Delicious is definitely one of the worst offenders in that regards, making it an (almost) objectively bad cultivar.